I think is the first one (birth )
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The author creates a nice calm effect by telling how the store smells like old leather and how the spines and pages of the book feel so nice. “Rising from the stairs, I stepped into the darkness of the shop. I didn’t need the light switch to find my way. I know the shop the way you know the places of your childhood. Instantly the smell of leather and old paper was soothing. I ran my fingertips along the spines, like a pianist along his keyboard. Each book has its own individual note: the grainy, linen-covered spine of Daniels’s History of Map Making, the cracked leather of Lakunin’s minutes from the meetings of the St. Petersburg Cartographic Academy; a well- worn folder that contains his maps, hand-drawn, hand-colored. You could blindfold me and position me anywhere on the three floors of this shop, and I could tell you from the books under my fingertips where I was.”
In "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, Marguerite cannot remember the poem because she didn't want to remember the words that reminded her how much she wanted to leave. Despite wetting herself on her way out of the church, she laughs because she was finally free.
A good tip is to sound loud, Ik that a bit hard to do when you are a shy person. I use to be nerves to do presentation but Sounding loud and clear will help.
Another this try not to feel so tense give you self the wiggles if possible and breathe in and out and tell your self you got this, and you are only doing it ones this will tell your brain that you have it control.
Don’t be scared Ik it scary at first but later on in life you are going to do more like this. You are going to amazing:)